14—Friday, February 3, 1967 SYNAGOGUE THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS SERVICES Circumcision in the Synagogue and on the Sabbath BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX ;presence of ten adult Jewish males I circumcision is originally delayed (Copyright, 1967, JTA, Inc.) assembled for prayer constitutes or to the circumcision of prose- It is customary to have circum- Ian atmosphere which contains the lytes, since in their respective Ipresence of the Almighty. Of cases it is no longer the eighth cisions in the synagogue. Such seemed to have been the course, neither requirement is un- day. Many interpretations have practice in the community pre- iversally insisted upon and thus j been offered as to why the eir- sided over by Rabbi Meir of many circumcisions are held with_ icumcision ritual supercedes the Routenberg (see his Book of Cus- out the presence of the minyan out- restriction of the Sabbath. Some CONG. BNAI JACOB: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. toms, page 78 ff.). The famed j side the confines of the synagogue. claim that since the principle be- Rabbi Isaac will speak on "The Civil Laws in the Tora." I. Ishakis, Rashba (Rabbi Samuel ben Adder- I Both the atmosphere of the syn- hind the observance of the circum- et, Responsa 7:536) derives this i agogue and the quorum of ten i cision rite is a "sign" like that of Bar Mitzva. Sabbath, the one is not really TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Rosenbaum from the understanding that the Jewish adult males are considered i the will speak on "Old Rules and a New Life." Robert A. Perlman, circumcision is a sign of the advisable for the aforementioned ; violating the Sabbath when per- ' forming the circumcision on the covenant and the ritual of circum-reason. Bar Mitzva. prescribed by the Bible since It is allowed to make a cir- i day will speak on cision is an act of the covenant. Dr. Fram Services 8:30 p.m. today. *TEMPLE ISRAEL: , he is only doing what the Sab- cumcision on the Sabbath. - (See story). Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Such a covenant is made in the "Education for Survival," The rabbis (T a 1 m u d Shabbos ! bath requires of him — estab- presence of the Almighty. He bases Leslie Marc Karnoff, Bar Mitzva. covenant TEMPLE BETH JACOB, Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi this upon a passage in the Book 132a) deduce this from the bib- 1 lishing the "sign" of the Berkowitz will speak on "The Hebrew Prophets—Relics or Rele- of Samuel where it is written "And lical passage which states "And i between the Almighty and his peo- in they the two of them, made a on the eighth day he shall be pie. Israel. Such is the case vant?" the matter of bringing the re- CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. covenant in the presense of the circumcised: (Lev. 12:3), claim- quired sacrifices in the temple on if Almighty" (Samuel 23:18). The ing that this means that even Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will speak on "The Jewish Law Con- . . day falls on the Sab- the Sabbath, because some claim cept." Steven Z. Cohen, Bar Mitzva. Almighty s presence is especially the eighth bath the child shall be circumcised that a circumcision is like bring- TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Jacob Lader Mar- felt in the synagogue and thus on that day. Of course, it should 1 ing a sacrifice to G-d. circumcision is traditionally . "The Rise of the World's Greatest Community:Ithe cus will speak on Pioneer Days in the Tidewater," (See story). i held in the synagogue. This may be understood, that circumcision possibly be the reason why some is allowed on the Sabbath only for YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTHWEST DETROIT: Services 5:30 p.m. to- •. try and have a minyan pr,:sent at a normal child born to Jewish "What Con- will speak on Rabbi Prero day and • 9 a.m. Saturday. a circumcision since the joint parents and not to a child whose stitutes a Happy Home." CONG. BETH AM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Jessel will speak on "What's the Law?" DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Gamze will speak on "And These Are the Judgements." G. BNAI DAVID: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Satur CONG. COLLEGE. STUDENTS Exciting 8 Week Teachers to Be.Cited by Temple Israel • Jewish educators of national emi- her, Sidney Fishman, Clarence Jewish will travel to Detroit this j Goldberg, Sander Pap°, - Mrs. Plis- day. Wayne Jerome Stein, Bar Mitzva. Services 5:35 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. weekend to participate in a week- I kow. Mrs. Shlomo Marenof, Mrs. BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: end of worship services and peda- Bertram Risin and Mrs. Frank Saturday . Terry Ira Berlin and Eric Geller, Bnai Mitzva. gogical seminars, part of the edu- Simons. Services 5:30 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. CONG. AHAVAS ACHIM: Teachers who will receive five- Saturday. Steven David Krefman and Steven Jay Schwartz, Bnai cational institute to honor the year awards are Mrs. Edward Ber- •teachers of Temple Israel. Mitzva. Dr. Abraham Segal, director of man, Mrs. Kenneth Davidson, Mrs. CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Dorothy Lessem, Bat Mitzva. Services 9 a.m. Saturday. Marc Fitzerman. Bar Mitzva. teacher education, Union of Ameri- Milton Erlich, Farber, Fishman, YOUNG ISRAEL CENTER OF OAK WOODS: Services 5:35 p.m. today can Hebrew Congregations, will Mrs. Seymour Rapp, Mrs. Risin, - speak to a teacher assembly Sun- Dr. Harold Rossmoore, Franklin and 9 a.m. Saturday. Morris Feldman. Bar Mitzva. of Re- Sidlow, Mrs. Kenneth Volk and CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Satur- day morning on "Philosophy form Judaism as It Applies to the MTS. Irwin Zeigelman. day. Michael S'ilberschein and David Winsen, Bnai Mitzva. CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Religious School." He will also ad- I There will be no religious school dress a group of youth leaders on sessions on the Sunday of the in- Saturday. Robert Levine and Peter Goldberg, Bnai Mitzva. rs. stitute, the entire day being de- Regular services will be held at Cong. Beth Isaac, Livonia Jewish "God and the Adolescent." M Congregation, Cong. Mishkan Israel, Cong. Shaarey Emunah, Cong. Libbie L. Braverman, educational voted to honoring the teachers. director of Temple Sinai, Stamford, They will be the guests of the con- Beth Joseph and Adas Shalom Synagogue. Conn.. will direct a group of pri- I gregation at Sunday m o r n i n g mart' teachers in an arts and crafts , breakfast. workshop called "You Don't Have • to Be an Artist." 25th Glazer Institute on Judaism to Feature Historian. Rabbi, Marcus Prof. Jason H. Tickton, music• director of Temple Beth El for the past 33 years and professor of music at Wayne State Univer- sity, will deliver the 1:30 p.m. lecture, at which the Rev. Tracy M. Pullman of the First Unitar- ian-Universalist Church, will pre- side. Prof. Tickton will speak on at Temple Beth El. "The Wonderful Heritage of He- The institute, named for the late brew Music." spiritual leader of Beth El, has At the noon luncheon session, been held the last 25 years for clergymen in attendance will be the Rabbi Jacob Rader Marcus, pro- lessor of American Jewish history at the Hebrew Union College-Jew- isle Institute of Religion, will lec- ture on "Jew and Christian: Con- frontation and Acceptance" at the ilver anniversary B. Benedict Glazer Institute on Judaism today The institute will begin with Sabbath eve services 8:30 p.m. today, when Dr. Leon Fram will deliver an address on "Education for Survival." The services will be conducted by teachers ,of the religion and Hebrew schools of Temple Israel. Several teachers will receive awards for five years of continuous service, and two teachers, Robert Lask and Mrs. Julius Pliskow, will receive cita- tions for 10 years' continuous service. Christian clergymen of metropoli- guests of the Beth El Sisterhood. Participants in the services are tan Detroit. It is held in associa- Rabbi Morton Kanter of Beth Mrs. Samuel Barr, Bernard Far- tion with the Detroit Council of El will deliver M. the invocation; the Churches. Rev. Robert M. Frehse executive Rabbi Marcus, director of the director of the D e tr o i t Round Harper's Editor to Speak American Jewish Archives and Table of Christians and Jews, will American Jewish Periodical Center. be chairman; and Rabbi Hertz will at New Temple Services will speak at the 10 a.m. session. deliver remarks. The Rev. G. Mer- I Marion K. Sanders, senior editor Rabbi Richard C. Hertz will deliver rill Lenox, executive director of of Harper's Magazine who wrote the invocation, and the Rev. Ralph the Detroit Council of Churches. the controversial "Several Worlds H. Read of North Congregational will speak on "After 25 Years." of American Jews: An Unauthor- Church Nvill preside. Prof. Marcus will lecture again ized Guide," will engage in a dia- this evening, at 8:30, when his Beth I logue with Rabbi Ernst J. Conrad, El Sabbath lecture will be "The 8:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at The New Rise of the World's Greatest Com- I Temple services in the Birming- munity: Pioneer Days in the Tide- I ham Unitarian Church. water." While in Detroit, Mrs. Sanders will visit with her son Michael, a research physicist and professor at the University of Michigan. Mrs. Sanders' arrival coincides • • 1 with distribution of the February h issue of Harper's in which several In conjunction with the annual lead articles were edited by Mrs. dinner of the Vaad Harabonim Sanders.. (Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Mrs. Sanders, a graduate of Metropolitan Detroit) March 12, at Cobo Hall, the Hebrew month Wellesley College, started her of Adar-I, (Feb. 11-March 12) has professional career as a news• been proclaimed as Vaad Hara- paper feature and fiction writer. Jan. 12 - Feb. 10 She served as chief of overseas bonim Month. -publications and editor of the Our Torah Says: "For man is as a tree All rabbis in this area were of the field" (Deut. 20:9). .ie man's magazine Amerika for the State t grows in asked to speak from their pulpits life is similar to the tree tha Department during World War the field. Just as a tree has roots, and to invite worshipers to parti- . branches, fruits and leaves, so too does IL She has written many a human being have roots, fruits — cipate in this year's citywide af- articles for Harper's. which are deeds — leaves — which are fair. his words. At the Feb. 10 services, she and In a statement to the Jewish PLANT TREES IN ISRAEL community, Rabbi Leizer Levin, Rabbi Conrad will discuss Mrs. IN THE NAME OF YOUR president of the council, outlined Sanders' "Several Worlds" article the program and concerns of the (April 1966), which contains a num- LOVED ONES ber of observations about the De- Perpetuate the memory of family and organization. friends .. , celebrate Bar Mitzvah . . . Gashrut supervision, beth din troit metropolitan area. honor any happy event by planting (rabbinical court), family coun- trees in the forests and Border Settle- ments of Israel ! Most children enter a world seling, records and register, rab- binic reference library, study and where only poverty, disease, and 18414 WYOMING lectures, and an information bul- ignorance await them. UNICEF Phone".UN 4-2767 . tries to reach them first_ - ,igt,P4:.'.‘, • ,% Adar I Proclaimed Vaad HaraboniM Detroit Mont MONTH kiEnitz•iracation 151111 a EUROPE JUNE-AUG. MT PROGRAM FEATURES: • 16 days of fruit-picking & other work in Kibbutzim or Moshavim • 12 "Go Native" sightseeing tours throughout Israel • 7 days of rest and recreation • 3 day orientation seminar • 14 day tour of Italy, Switzerland and France or 6 day tour of Greece, Greek Isles cruise and Italy $925 TOTAL COST For further information and reservations contact: HALL FOR RENT HISTADRUT For meetings and small affairs. Cong. Shomrey Emunah Schaefer Corner Clarita STTUODUE: 19161 Schaefer Hwy. Tel. UN 4-7094 For information call UN 4-1862 MIZRACHI HATZAIR 1967 ISRAEL SUMMER INSTITUTE "Ages 17-23 *Seven weeks spent in Israel 'plus European stopover *Total *Kibbutz-moshav work period - Strickly Orthodox '14th year in operation cost: 6945 Write to: Mizrachi Hatzair Israel Summer Institute New York, NY 10003 200 Park Avenue South NEW DATE I I NEW SPEAKER Next Beth Abraham Breakfast Forum Speaker Sunday, Feb. *12th — 10 a.m. MRS. FRANCES SOLOVICH Former Pres. International Bnai Brith Women on "ECUMENISM: UTOPIA OR REALITY" at Beth Abraham Synagogue — 7 Mile Rd. at Greenlawn *REPLACING FEB. 5th FORUM* Everyone Welcorne Auspices: Men's Club of Congregation Beth Abraham THE COUNCIL OF ORTHODOX RABBIS OF DETROIT and A GROUP OF FRIENDS OF RABBI AND REBITZIN JOSEPH RABINOWITZ invite the community to a farewell evening tendered in their honor on Wednesday, 6th day of Adar I, 5727 bing February 15 1967, at 8:00 o'clock at the Imperial Catering Company, 18451 Wyoming on the occasion of their settling permanently in Israel. The beloved Rabbi, popularly known as the Brezner Rebe, and his family, have endeared themselves to countless persons, who had come within the benign influence of the saintly spiritual leader of Congrega- tion Beth Shmuel, which he had founded in Detroit after his first arrival here some forty-one years ago. He has served the community at large with counsel and example. Currently he has been the honorary president of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis. The public is cordially invited to participate in this evening of tribute to a venerable couple and wish them well on their leaving for the Holy Land. The council will be grateful to those who desire to attend to call 392-6260. RABBI RABINOWITZ Rabbi Leizer Levin, President Rabbi Chaskel Grubner, Exec. Secy.